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    My walnut burl smelled like a doggie accident. Don't try that one.

    Buy a couple of cedar boards and make something.
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    Another vote for Western Yellow Cedar. Wonderful stuff.

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    Freshly harvested Eastern Hemlock if ya like the pungent aroma of Turpentine; it will take your breath away!

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    I always liked the smell when cutting fir plywood. Not fancy, but a good shop smell.

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    Kevin, I have some maple that is arguably the most pungent wood I've ever smelled. NOT at all in a GOOD way either. I'd be happy to send you some. Then you can make a bunch of shavings out of it, and your shop can smell as bad as mine for weeks!
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    Some of the most pungent smells I can think of come from a dull saw blade and thick wood. Burnt pine lasts a long time, and anything involving Luan plywood on the table saw smells for days.

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    I got to where I would not buy plywood with Verona ply cores. That stuff is just nasty.

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    I love the smell of bubinga!

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    Green white oak...smells like a whiskey barrel!

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    go cut and split some wet oak, and stack it in your shop to dry. then you will have a real wood smell
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    I pruned some bottle brush bushes and shredded the wood, it gave off a very sweet smell. It was one of the best smelling wood I have ever smelled. I love the smell of pine that has been freshly cut. I have a small barn that was built in 1943 out of Tamarack. The walls are 1"x8" and the supports are log beams. The wood still has a nice comfortable smell but I can't describe a comparable like smell.
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    Quote Originally Posted by David G Baker View Post
    I have a small barn that was built in 1943 out of Tamarack. The walls are 1"x8" and the supports are log beams. The wood still has a nice comfortable smell but I can't describe a comparable like smell.
    Wow David,
    You just hit a memory for me. My Dad was born in a Minnesota Tamarack log cabin in 1911. He and I hunted near that cabin when I was a boy. Dad told me many stories in that cabin and several Tamarack barns that were still sound in the 1960's. The smell was earthy and exactly as you describe.

    I love the smell of Brazilian Rosewood.

    The smell of Doug Fir reminds me of the neighborhood lumber yard as a boy. I'd lurk around the yard and dream about woodworking as often as I could. To this day, when I cut Doug Fir I go right back to boyhood dreaming.

    I'm so lucky that my current local yard only carries real Doug Fir. SPF creates BAD dreams!

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    Lignum vitae is very strong and smells like powerful cologne/perfume. My workshop tho tends to smell like a Bug Candle and spray Off in an attempt to keep the mosquitos at bay

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    Santos Mahogany (Myroxylon balsamum ) has a very long lasting smell, like cinnamon and cloves. I sucked up some dust with my shop-vac and it perfumed the shop for months every time I turned it on.

    Brazilian Rosewood smells the best but that would be some seriously expensive shavings.

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    The smell is not powerful but fresh cut pine takes me back 5o years or so to my grandfathers shop.

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